Privacy Policy — Field Recovery

Effective date: September 30, 2026

Field Recovery is a Chrome extension that saves text you type into web form fields so you can recover it after a page refresh, crash, or a form that fails to save. The short version: everything stays on your own computer, it is encrypted, and nothing is ever sent to us or to anyone else.

What data the extension handles

• Text you type into form fields (<input> text fields, <textarea>, and rich-text/contenteditable editors).
• Basic context to find a field again: the page URL, a best-effort field label, the field's identifier (id, name, or a CSS path), and the last-updated time.

Not collected: Password fields are never recorded (password, one-time-code, and payment-card inputs are excluded). No browsing history, no analytics, no telemetry, no ads, no account, no personal profile.

How your data is stored and protected

• All saved text is encrypted at rest using the browser's built-in Web Crypto API (AES-GCM for the text, protected by an RSA key pair; the private key is sealed with a key derived from your master password via PBKDF2).
• Decrypted text exists only in memory, only while you have unlocked the extension, and is never written to disk in readable form.
• Data is stored locally via chrome.storage.local — not synced to any server and not transmitted off your device.

Where your data goes

Nowhere. Field Recovery has no backend and makes no network requests. Your data is never sold, shared, or sent to the developer or any third party.

Data retention and your controls

• Saved entries are automatically deleted after 30 days.
• You can delete any entry, or clear everything, from the extension's popup.
• Uninstalling the extension removes all of its stored data.
• Because data is encrypted with your master password, if you forget that password the saved text cannot be recovered — there is no reset.

Permissions

The extension requests only what it needs: storage (save encrypted data locally), alarms (cleanup and auto-lock timers), and access to the sites you visit (to capture and restore text in forms on any site you type in). It uses no remote code.

Children's privacy

Field Recovery is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at the same location with a new effective date.